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STABLE connotes many things including mental,
physical, environmental, elemental stability and instability; a shelter for
horses; or a bringing together - as in a stable of artists. These ideas are
explored in Stable, a group exhibition by Nuha Saad, Kath Fries, Danica
Knezevic and Fiona Kemp who all share mutual interests in exploring both the
conceptual and material qualities of their practices, working with
site-responsive, experimental and embodied processes. Together the four artists
will generate new interpretative connections to critique the themes of
stability and stables in Articulate project space. Their scope is broad, Nuha
Saad works with abstracted ornamental objects, Kath Fries with ephemeral forms,
Danica Knezevic with durational performance, and Fiona Kemp works conceptually
within her multidisciplinary practice. Materiality will be a central concern in
Stable, as these artists playfully
and thoughtfully push the limits of their practices and mediums.

23.10.16

Work Out shows the work of artists Linden Braye, Terry Hayes, Margaret Roberts, Sardar Sinjawi, Katherine Scott and William Seeto, whose work invites some combination of physical and mental engagement.

To 'work out' suggests the two apparently different processes of solving a puzzle in the mind and exercising the body in space. Even though these are commonly thought of as different processes, there has also long been an interest in the inter-dependency of the mind and the body. Artists implicitlyaccept that inter-dependency when they employ a spatial vocabulary—whethervirtual or actual—to test the mind. In philosophy, Merleau-Ponty discussed this inter-dependency in terms ofrelationships between perception and reflection, for example as he reflected in 1964:

Left
to itself, perception forgets itself and is ignorant of its own
accomplishments. Far from thinking that philosophy is a useless
repetition of life I think, on the contrary, that without reflection life would probably dissipate
itself in ignorance of itself or in chaos. But this does not mean that
reflection should be carried away with itself or pretend to be ignorant
of its origins. By fleeing difficulties it would only fail in its task.(Maurice Merleau-Ponty, An Unpublished Text in The Primacy of Perception, trans James M. Edie, Northwestern University Press, 1964, p19)

The phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty was drawn on by artists in the mid 20th Century to explain their growing interest in extending their spatial language from the virtual space of images to the actual space of the body as well. The work shown in Work Outinherits and emphasises that interest by beingpuzzles that are resolved orexplored by bodily moving around or from some other actual spatial engagement.The particular interest that each of these artists has in thisareais outlined below.

In the past, Linden Braye would don the costume of a generalised animal, and, whileher loyal dog Luna was alive, challenge Luna (as well as human audiences) to work out what she had become. Luna tried to do this by running around and barking. Since Luna has passed on, Linden has sometimes become birds, attempting to leap into the sky or search for scraps in the ground or rubbish bins.

Linden Braye 2016

Terry Hayeswill work with aboutness, as in 'What is this artwork
about?' once the (art) and the (ab) have been worked out.

Terry Hayes 2011

Margaret Roberts will show some of the geometric processes that Francesco Borromini is thought to have usedto work out the footprints of his 17th century baroque churches, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza.
They will be shown as wall drawings with facility for visitors to
physically move parts to work out how its thought the shapes weredevised.

Margaret Roberts 2016

In his long-term
project, After a Beam of Light, Sardar
Sinjawi explores the formation of images via the simple interaction of
people and objects in spaces also populated by transparent reflective surfaces.
He does this by asking viewers to work out the disjunctions between what they
see from a single spot and what they know by moving around. He arrived at this
by experimenting with clear perspex and mirror to create objects that are
illusory like holograms, but that are actually mental entities that viewers
themselves create through the conjunction of reflection and their own spatial
location. He gives viewers the opportunity to understand that it is they
who create the illusory object, just as they can also undo it by moving behind
the reflection to see the illusory object disappear.

Sardar Sinjawi 2016

In a different way, Katherine Scott
also problematises the image, using projections that ask viewers to
work out their formation and relationship to the images' likenesses in
the space that is occupied by both image and viewer.

Katherine Scott 2016

William Seeto will show work that is a continuation from his project, The Space in Between that explores the transformations produced by simple physical processes such as folding/unfolding/extension and that asks viewers to work out how those changes come about.

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Articulate project space is an artist-run initiative (ari) run by a group of artists whose diverse practices share an interest in the relationships artworks form with their locations. The group includes Linden Braye, Jenny Brown, Sue Callanan, Virginia Hilyard, Fiona Kemp, Francesca Mataraga, Margaret Roberts, Wies Schuiringa, Tamara Smits, Gary Warner, Emma Wise and Julian Woods, as well as William Seeto who runs the facebook pages.